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  1. Comparison of two plasma p-tau217 assays to detect and monitor Alzheimer's pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2024-03-11 Biomarkers

    Both plasma p-tau217 assays were strongly associated with amyloid and tau PET.

  2. Blood Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease and Cognition: A Literature Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Biomolecules 2024-01-11 Biomarkers

    Recent advances in blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) show great promise for clinical applications, offering a less invasive alternative to current cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) measures.

  3. Anti-CMV IgG Seropositivity is Associated with Plasma Biomarker Evidence of Amyloid-β Accumulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Biomarkers

    53% of participants were CMV seropositive.

  4. A genome-wide association study of longitudinal change in CSF tau among non-demented elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Bratislavske lekarske listy 2024 Genetics

    The GWAS identified a significant single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs17149074, within the C9orf171 (CFAP77) gene region that showed significant association with changes in CSF t-tau over time.

  5. Modeling the temporal evolution of plasma p-tau in relation to amyloid beta and tau PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-11-14 Biomarkers

    Plasma p-tau is a stronger indicator of a temporally linked response to elevated brain Aβ than of tau pathology.

  6. Plasma biomarkers predict Alzheimer's disease before clinical onset in Chinese cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature communications 2023-10-24 Biomarkers

    Plasma amyloid-β (Aβ)42, phosphorylated tau (p-tau)181, and neurofilament light chain (NfL) are promising biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  7. Plasma neurofilament light chain associated with impaired regional cerebral blood flow in healthy individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Current journal of neurology 2023-10-07 Biomarkers

    We found non-significant differences in age (F(2, 141) = 1.304; P = 0.275) and years of education (F(2, 141) = 0.013; P = 0.987).

  8. Detection and treatment of Alzheimer's disease in its preclinical stage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature aging 2023-05-18 Treatments

    Longitudinal multimodal biomarker studies reveal that the continuum of Alzheimer's disease (AD) includes a long latent phase, referred to as preclinical AD, which precedes the onset of symptoms by decades.

  9. Vascular Risk Predicts Plasma Amyloid β 42/40 Through Cerebral Amyloid Burden in Apolipoprotein E ε4 Carriers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Stroke 2023-04-06 Biomarkers

    Vascular risk significantly predicted cerebral amyloid burden in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative but not in the UCD-ADRC cohort.

  10. Plasma p-tau181, neurofilament light chain and association with cognition in Parkinson’s disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. npj Parkinson's Disease 2022-11-12 Biomarkers

    Early identification of cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease (PD) has important clinical and research implications.

  11. Real-world applicability of glial fibrillary acidic protein and neurofilament light chain in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-08-22 Biomarkers

    We constructed a panel combining plasma NfL and GFAP with known AD risk factors (Combination panel: age+sex+APOE4+GFAP+NfL).

  12. Diagnostic value of serum versus plasma phospho-tau for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2022-05-11 Biomarkers

    Comparable diagnostic performances and strong correlations between serum versus plasma pairs suggest that p-tau analyses can be expanded to research cohorts and hospital systems that prefer serum to other blood matrices.

  13. Quantitative Water Permeability Mapping of Blood-Brain-Barrier Dysfunction in Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-04-08 Vascular contributions

    Blood-brain-barrier (BBB) dysfunction is a hallmark of aging and aging-related disorders, including cerebral small vessel disease and Alzheimer's disease.

  14. Association of Emerging β-Amyloid and Tau Pathology With Early Cognitive Changes in Clinically Normal Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 2022-03-25 Drug development

    We sought to identify cognitive measures associated with the earliest detectable signs of emerging Aβ and tau pathology.

  15. Plasma neurofilament light levels correlate with white matter damage prior to Alzheimer's disease: results from ADNI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Aging clinical and experimental research 2022-02-28 Biomarkers

    Our findings demonstrated a significant association between plasma NFL levels and disrupted WM microstructure across the brain.

  16. Systematic Assessment of 10 Biomarker Candidates Focusing on α-Synuclein-Related Disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2021-08-07 Biomarkers

    CSF total aSyn was decreased. NfL, pNfH, UCHL-1, GFAP, S100B, and sTREM-2 were increased in patients with neurodegenerative disease versus HC (P < 0.05).

  17. Associations of longitudinal plasma p-tau181 and NfL with tau-PET, Aβ-PET and cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2021-06-29 Biomarkers

    P-tau and NfL behave differently within the same individuals over time and may therefore offer complementary diagnostic information.

  18. Neurofilament Light Chain as Biomarker for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2021-06-21 Biomarkers

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are two related currently incurable neurodegenerative diseases.

  19. Plasma P-tau181 to Aβ42 ratio is associated with brain amyloid burden and hippocampal atrophy in an Asian cohort of Alzheimer's disease patients with concomitant cerebrovascular disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-03-31 Biomarkers

    Plasma P-tau181/Aβ42 ratio may be a noninvasive means of identifying AD with elevated brain amyloid in populations with concomitant CeVD.

  20. Increased choroidal thickness in adults with Down syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2021-03-17 Brain scans and imaging

    ChT was increased in people with DS (pwDS) compared to Ctrl.

  21. Characterization of Retinal Microvascular and Choroidal Structural Changes in Parkinson Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. JAMA ophthalmology 2021-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    A total of 124 eyes of 69 participants with PD (39 men [56.5%]; mean [SD] age, 71.7 [7.0] years) and 248 eyes of 137 control participants (77 men [56.2%]; mean [SD] age, 70.9 [6.7] years) were analyzed.

  22. Head-to-head comparison of clinical performance of CSF phospho-tau T181 and T217 biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-11-30 Biomarkers

    N-p-tau217 and N-p-tau181 could improve diagnostic accuracy in prodromal-AD and clinical trial recruitment as both identify Aβ pathophysiology and differentiate early MCI-AD better than Mid-p-tau181.

  23. Longitudinal validity of PET-based staging of regional amyloid deposition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2020-07-10 Brain scans and imaging

    Positron emission tomography (PET)-based staging of regional amyloid deposition has recently emerged as a promising tool for sensitive detection and stratification of pathology progression in Alzheimer's Disease (AD).

  24. Concordance of Lumipulse cerebrospinal fluid t-tau/Aβ42 ratio with amyloid PET status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-01 Tau biomarkers

    Virtually identical t-tau/Aβ42 cut-points (∼0.54) performed best in both test cohorts and with similar accuracy (areas under ROC curve [AUCs] [A/B: 0.95; C: 0.94]).

  25. Plasma lipocalin-2 levels in the preclinical stage of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019-09-06 Biomarkers

    Plasma lipocalin-2 levels were higher in preclinical AD compared with control subjects and associated with cerebrospinal fluid amyloid-beta42 levels but not cerebrospinal fluid tau or phosphorylated-tau181 levels.

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